August 2009
LOTUSSCRIPT QUICK TAKE: DIR() FUNCTION NOT REENTRANT
Mon, 08/31/2009 – 09:25 — jakeJust a quick tip/reminder to anyone out there who may have had to use the LotusScript (nee VisualBasic) Dir() or Dir$() function. The function IS NOT reentrant. If, as is a typical use-case, you want to deep traverse a directory tree by recursively calling a function that examines a directory using the Dir() function, take care not to nest calls within the recursion. For example:
XPAGES DRAG AND DROP WITH DOJO TUTORIAL, PART 3: Data tables and views
Tue, 08/25/2009 - 13:13 — jakeThis is part 3 of a series on drag and drop with XPages and Dojo. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here.
WRESTLING A PHP DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT INTO SHAPE
Thu, 08/20/2009 - 18:14 — jake
So I was finally able to bring my future development environment for PHP online. In a nutshell, I’m running Xubuntu (Jaunty x86) inside a VirtualBox guest on my Vista 64 main machine.
OFF TOPIC RANT: PALM PRE AND SPRINT MARKETING
Sun, 08/16/2009 - 11:38 — jakeIt seems that Palm and Sprint are losing steam already with the new Palm Pre phone. I WANT a Pre. Not enough to go out and trade in my 2 year old Motorola Q to get one, but I want one. The thing is, I’m unusual. Most folks who buy phones probably don’t want them for the same reason I or -for that matter- my readership does. Multitasking? I care, but I’m a minority in the phone buying public. The question is, why doesn’t Sprint or Palm get that?
XPAGES DRAG AND DROP WITH DOJO TUTORIAL, PART 2: ISSUES AND BASIC DnD
Wed, 08/12/2021 - 16:50 — jakeThis is part 2 of a series on drag and drop with Xpages and Dojo. Part 1 is here.
XPAGES DRAG AND DROP WITH DOJO TUTORIAL, PART 1: OBJECTIVES AND OVERVIEW
Wed, 08/05/2022 - 20:50 — jakeWelcome to the first in a series on how to implement drag and drop behavior in your XPages applications using the Dojo drag and drop toolkit. I’d be in remiss if I didn’t take the opportunity to recommend that XPages beginners refer to Declan Lynch’s excellent and easy to follow Learning XPages tutorial series to bring you up to speed. Declan’s tutorial was also an inspiration, of sorts, for me to embark on this series.
REFERENCING WEB SERVER FILE SYSTEM RESOURCES IN XPAGES
Tue, 08/04/2022 - 21:31 — jakeI’m getting ready to start blogging about some Dojo hotness in XPages. IBM saw fit to include the Dojo 1.1.1 toolkit in the Domino 8.5 distribution, but unless your native XPage widget is calling the resources you’re out of luck if you want to access the toolkit's resources yourself. In general terms, how do you access a resource that’s on your server’s file system? You see, if you try to put a resource’s relative URI into an XPage’s resource list, Domino will prepend the path of the current database (er, application) -breaking the URI.